[Samba] Samba PDC and User Management with Perl scripts

[Umberto Nicoletti]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
> We do something similar using ntlogon, except that ntlogon runs on the
> pdc when the client connects to the netlogon share, and auto-generates a
> windows batch file. So you don't need to install software on the client,
>   or wait for group enumeration features to be added to samba (or use
> samba-3.0-alphas, or wait for samba-3.0.0).
> 
> http://www.craigelachie.org/rhacer/ntlogon/

Thank you,
I did not know about this tool.

But I need the perl script since it does some other useful stuff apart
from mapping drives:
move IE cache, set office default save path, move My documents out of
profile and so on...

I'll take a look at it anyway...
Thanks again,
umberto

> 
> Buchan
> 
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 15:08:43 +0100
> > From: Umberto Nicoletti <unicoletti at arpa.veneto.it>
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] Samba PDC and User Management with Perl scripts
> >
> > Hello,
> > I want to implement a perl logon script which would map network shares
> > depending on group membership. This way when I move a user to or from a
> > group
> > it automatically gets the new shares.
> >
> > The PDC is Samba 2.2.1 or 2.2.2 on BSD and clients are NT workstation
> > and 2000 Pro.
> > Perl is latest activestate for win32 and is intended to run on Win32
> > clients.
> >
> > The big trouble is getting user Group membership to work when I call
> > Win32::Lanman::GroupIsMember() or LocalGroupIsMember().
> > Right now, even though Samba is configured OK they always return false,
> > even if a user is member of a group.
> > I can use User Manager to view user and group information...
> >
> > Am I trying to use functions not implemented yet?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > umberto
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> >
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